samedi, janvier 14, 2006

It works !

Even if the work is not finished (a lot remains to do), OpenOffice.org works on Mactel machines (Intel processors + Mac OS X) since yesterday 13 january 2006. Remember, the first launch of OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X was announced the 17th january 2005.

After the last fixes in bridges, I was very surprised to proceed a complete build (without hack registration). For the Fun, you can see a little About. Install goes smoothly, and OpenOffice.org starts without any problem. Don't know why two archs are given, because this is Intel x86 only. Remember : this is work in progress


Wizards and Base works : means Java works !

Just found two problems : use Fontoo, Dicoo, or sound leads to instant crashes, probably caused by bad internal exception handling. In fact, the build is fixed since a long time. What was very difficult, was the bridge. The bridges is the heart of OpenOffice.org, because doing the interface between Java, C++ and UNO. The port started in October 2005. Of course, I was not alone to do the work :

Special thanks to Daniel Boelzle, Stephan Bergmann and Florian Heckl for their work !

Waiting Florian and me resync our sources and build last available milestone (currently m150), the lucky people using a Mactel can download french or english US builds (using m137) for tests : Cusoon
Or OpenOffice.org Site

WARNING : they're experimental builds, and they will only work with Mac OS X using Intel processors (this packages won't work with PowerPC). You use them at your own risks